Re: LLVM and Ada

["Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 1:57:48 PM UTC-5, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> > 
> > I haven't tested to build it, nor I have intention, DragonEgg exists for
> > LLVM 3-6 and GCC 6.3/6.4/8.0
> > 
> > https://github.com/xiangzhai/dragonegg is a fork more up to date than main branch.
> > 
> 
> There’s still not much been done even on that branch.

https://github.com/xiangzhai

The guy who took this work over in 2017, Xiang Leslie ZHAI, has a llvm.org.cn email address.  I don't know the criteria needed to be that degree of officially connected with LLVM, but his work appears to have some degree of officialness from LLVM organization itself.  That is a good sign.

This fork of DragonEgg supports various releases of GCC (except conspicuously skipping 7.X and going on to 8.0), probably focusing on C and C++, ignoring Ada.  But (assuming that it works), it is good to have any amount of maintenance on the old DragonEgg to keep it at all current (even partially).  It is easier for someone among us in Ada world to test & maintain the Ada support on this fork of DragonEgg then, instead of going back 7 years ourselves.

No contributions since October 2017 though.  That is a bad sign.